Event controllability in counterfactual thinking
By Vittorio Girotto, P. Legrenzi, A. Rizzo. 1991
How researchers see this paper
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- Tim Miller
- Alice McEleney
- S. Pighin
- Ruth M. J. Byrne
- Michel Gonzalez
- R. McCloy
- Kacper Sokol
- Shane T. Mueller
Citations in the corpus
- Explanation in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the Social Sciences (2017, background): “[54] investigated mutability in causal chains with respect to controllability.”
- Counterfactual thoughts about experienced, observed, and narrated events (2011, background): “For example, readers undo the outcome of a scenario by altering antecedents that are under the protagonist’s direct control, rather than those that are not under his or her control (Girotto et al., 1991).”
- Counterfactual Thought. (2016, background): “People imagine things could have been different if Steven had not stopped at the bar—they mentally undo the controllable event more than the uncontrollable one (e.g., Girotto et al. 1991).”
- Semifactual “even if” thinking (2002, background): “For example, people undo actions within their voluntary control more often than those outside their control ( Girotto, Legrenzi, & Rizzo, 1991; Markman, Gavanski, Sherman, & McMullen, 1995; McCloy & Byrne, 2000).”
- Postdecisional Counterfactual Thinking by Actors and Readers (2007, background): “In particular, Girotto, Legrenzi, and Rizzo (1991) showed that events under the control of the protagonist, such as his or her decisions, are more mutable (e.g., ‘‘if Anna had chosen the other envelope’’) than events the protagonist cannot control (e.g., ‘‘if the research assistant had provided…”
- Counterfactual thinking: The temporal order effect (2004, background): “, 2000), as well as when there are prior events known to have caused it (Girotto et al., 1991; Wells et al., 1987).”
- Counterfactual thinking about actions and failures to act. (2000, background): “They mentally undo events under a person's voluntary control rather than events outside their control (e.g., Girotto, Legrenzi, & Rizzo, 1991; McCloy & Byrne, in press).”